Poems

Search our extensive curated collection of over 10,000 poems by occasion, theme, and form, or search by keyword or poet’s name in the field below.

Search our extensive curated collection of more than ten thousand poems by occasion (Autumn to Easter, Veterans Day to Valentine’s Day, etc.), theme (love, nature, sports, etc.), and form (sonnets, haiku, etc.), or search by keyword or poet’s name in the field below.

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Title	Author	Year
Spent	Mark Doty	2013
The Pool	H.D.	1915
Translation	Anne Spencer	1922
Poem	Alice Notley	2008
For Some Slight I Can’t Quite Recall	Ross Gay	2011
Abandonment Under the Walnut Tree	D. A. Powell	2010
The Wind Blows Through the Doors of My Heart	Deborah Digges	2010
Langston Blue	Jericho Brown	2010
Insomnia	Alicia Ostriker	2009
In the Village	Derek Walcott	2010
Delta Flight 659	Denise Duhamel	2009
XXIX [Surprised by joy—impatient as the Wind]	William Wordsworth	1815
Against Fruition	Sir John Suckling	1646
The Valley of Unrest	Edgar Allan Poe	1831
The Blue Terrance	Terrance Hayes	2006
Honky Tonk in Cleveland, Ohio	Carl Sandburg	1922
From the Long Sad Party	Mark Strand	1973
Heroic Simile	Robert Hass	1978
To Althea, from Prison	Richard Lovelace	1649
What are the consequences of silence?	Bhanu Kapil	2001

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